Lead for Partnership Delivery - Working for Essex

About the role

Lead for Partnership Delivery

Secondment, Full Time

£44,198 to £51,998 per annum

Location: Colchester

Closing Date: 22nd January 2025

This is a 12 month secondment/fixed term contract opportunity

Job Summary: As a system leader, you will manage operational and strategic transformation initiatives to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, young people, and complex families. Reporting to the Director of Local Delivery, you will lead strategic locality partnerships and collaboration between health, social care, and wider partners.

Accountabilities:

· Lead the quadrant children’s partnership board in Essex, addressing place-based needs.

· Use negotiation, brokerage, and mediation skills to manage complex partnerships and promote collaboration.

· Oversee the Start Well 0-25 domain development and implementation.

· Develop and implement the Start Well outcomes and accountability framework.

· Design and deliver new models of integrated, collaborative working for sustainable transformation.

· Maintain effective relationships with Start Well domain chairs and sub-groups.

· Improve information analysis and reporting for better decision-making.

· Collaborate with senior leadership on all-age place-based transformation plans.

· Direct staff in support of place-based strategies and transformation plans.

· Shape governance and transformation plans with local Integrated Care Systems.

· Enhance stakeholder engagement in the children’s partnership space.

· Provide expertise, project management, and strategic leadership on relevant local, national, and regional groups.

Essex Children Safeguarding Board accountabilities:

Lead the Stay Safe Partnership Board to address place-based needs
To provide subject matter expertise and project management support to the Essex Children’s Safeguarding board sub-groups including Performance & Quality Assurance (PAQA), Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and Learning and Development.

County Children’s Partnership Board accountabilities:

To support as the local delivery lead for the Essex County Children’s Partnership Board, shaping the partnership space to effectively respond to place-based needs.
To provide subject matter expertise and project management support to the Essex County Children’s Partnership Board to translate countywide objectives and ambitions into local activity.

Thematic accountabilities:

· To provide subject matter expertise, project management capacity and strategic leadership in support of a range of thematic areas including Early Help, SEND, Housing/Homeless Families, CIC/CLs, CIN/CP, Violence and Vulnerability, Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing, Public Health, Domestic Abuse, Parenting, BAME and Inequalities, UASC’s and Refugees.

· Current projects include:

o Parenting Outcomes

o Refresh of Effective Support for Children and Families

o Co-parenting Strategy and Partnership Plan

o Essex Children’s Plan Refresh

Planning and organisational accountabilities:

· Lead on identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on the wider organisation and partnership.

· Provide project management support to relevant internal and external working groups/projects and services to deliver better outcomes for children and families.

· Present information and issues, explaining highly complex sensitive issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Policy and service development responsibility:

· Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems promoting and an integrated approaches to service delivery where appropriate.

· Support the development of policies and procedures in relation to the effective support of children and families in Essex.

· To proactively keep abreast of national, regional, and local policies relevant to children and families and cascade an appropriate response.

· To support with statutory inspections, internal diagnostics and Partners in Practice work as required.

Operational accountability:

· To lead on the development of the Early Help drop-in function. Using high level influencing skills to build and maintain a multi-disciplinary team to support the early help system in Essex.

· To lead on the development of the Partnership Forum function. Using system leaderships skills to create opportunities for partners to network, hear updates from invited speakers, participate in facilitated discussions and improve outcomes for children and families.

· To lead on the delivery of the Partnership Bulletins function. Providing partners with pertinent information and resources in support of developing capacity and resilience within the children’s workforce.

· Accountable for ensuring appropriate information is collected and shared in all three functions as appropriate to support the analysis of impact and continuous improvements.

Financial accountabilities:

To proactively seek out opportunities for joint commissioning and funding that can support CSC/ Early Help for C&F and improve outcomes for children and families.

The experience you will bring:

· Ability to build and maintain professional relationships across partner agencies.

· High levels of negotiation, brokerage, and mediation skills.

· Need to be resilient, a good organiser and a self-starter.

· Have knowledge and understanding of current social care and health issues and the broader integration of health and social care and implications for delivery planning.

· Experience of working at a senior level in a political environment, proven skills in understanding and responding to different perspectives.

· Evidence of working in a complex multi-agency environment.

· Experience of managing change in a complex service environment.

· Educated to degree level in a relevant subject area, or equivalent by experience.

· Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area.

To read more about our business area, please visit: Children & Families

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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If you have queries regarding this role please contact Nicky OShaughnessy - Director Local Delivery nicky.oshaughnessy@essex.gov.uk or if you require guidance on the recruitment process, please email resourcing.team@essex.gov.uk

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